U.S. Code, Federal Register, Congressional hearings, House and Senate committee reports – the federal government is improving electronic access to these and many other materials. The new system is FDsys, which provides much easier searching than the first generation of GPOAccess. This news from the Government Printing Office:
“The sunset of GPO Access is planned for the end of 2010. At this time, FDsys will assume the role as GPO's electronic system of record. Migration of all content from GPO Access to FDsys will be complete by October 2010, and the two systems will run in parallel through the end of the year.
“FDsys is a system that allows Federal content creators to easily create and submit content that can be preserved, authenticated, managed, and delivered upon request. As opposed to just being a content repository, it is a system that will continually be updated with new Federal content collections, and these collections will need to be refreshed and migrated over time.”
You will notice that many of the documents have a blue banner at the top, showing that the document is official. Try the “Advanced Search” link from the middle of the FDsys homepage for the most specific searching. If you had bookmarked GPOAccess, it’s time now to revise that and link to FDsys. Please contact me or your librarian liaison if you’d like to learn more about FDsys.
Pat Court
Associate Law Librarian
